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  • There was also the murder of that Nobel laureate ...the crimes were all unusual: not for money, not for revenge.†  (source)
  • What had prompted the citation, and the writing of the letter, for that matter, was the fact that on the fourteenth of April, Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet laureate of the Revolution, had shot himself through the heart with a prop revolver.†  (source)
  • A disproportionate number of the nation's high achievers, the NRC study noted, such as Nobel laureates, are immigrants.†  (source)
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  • I'm Loren Blake, Vampyre Poet Laureate?'†  (source)
  • Her job was to host visitors who came to the labs, whether Nobel laureates or Girl Scout troops.†  (source)
  • She was also the winner, between 1938 and 1958, of nine Poet of the Year awards, culminating finally in the much-coveted State Poet Laureateship.†  (source)
  • She then moved on to work for Doubleday for the remainder of her nearly two decades in publishing, editing the books of people as diverse as Michael Jackson, Carly Simon, and Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, a Nobel laureate.†  (source)
  • His fieldworkers actually tested two elementary students who went on to be Nobel laureates, William Shockley and Luis Alvarez, and rejected them both.†  (source)
  • I used my speech in Norway not only to thank the Nobel committee and sketch out a vision of a future South Africa that was just and equitable, but to pay tribute to my fellow laureate, Mr. F. W. de Klerk.†  (source)
  • I couldn't have imagined it then, but that phone call would mark the beginning of a decade long adventure through scientific laboratories, hospitals, and mental institutions, with a cast of characters that would include Nobel laureates, grocery store clerks, convicted felons, and a professional con artist.†  (source)
  • With a group of California scientists who dubbed themselves the "Traitorous Eight," after defecting from the laboratory of infamously tempestuous Nobel laureate William Shockley, he had invented a type of integrated circuit that paved the way for the silicon chip.†  (source)
  • There were diplomats dancing with movie stars, and Nobel laureates telling chummy stories to shipping tycoons, and the demimonde of Broadway and the gossip industry hobnobbing with foreign correspondents.†  (source)
  • That was the word she chose, and since it was straight out of the nineteenth century, her mother approved, relishing the blank stares she received when she told her lady guests what position her daughter had acquired with the State Poet Laureate.†  (source)
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